The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has notified that the minimum Broadband speed has been raised to 512 kilobytes per second (kbps). As per the Broadband Policy 2004, the earlier minimum speed was 256 kbps.

The amendment has been made to the Telecom Consumers Complaint Redressal Regulations, 2012 and the regulations will be called the Telecom Consumers Complaint Redressal (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2014, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said in a notification.

Accordingly, the new definition of broadband is “a data connection that is able to support interactive services including internet access and has the capability of minimum download speed of 512kbps to an individual subscriber from the point of presence (POP) of the service provider intending to provide broadband service”.
As per National Telecom Policy 2012, the government aims to raise the Broadband Speed speed to 2 Mbps by 2015.

According to TRAI, total broadband subscribers in the country rose by 5.82% to 65.33 million at the end of May 2014 from 61.74 million at the end of April 2014. While wired broadband subscribers stood at 14.95 million as of May this year, mobile device users (phones and dongles) were 49.97 million and the fixed wireless (Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, Point-to-Point, Radio and VSAT) subscribers stood at 0.41 million for the same period.